In April 1941 this F4F-3A was on the strength of VF-7 aboard USS Wasp as part of the Neutrality Patrol in the Atlantic before the United States entered WWII. By 1943 it had been assigned to training carrier USS Sable and became yet another casualty swallowed by the waves of Lake Michigan after an accident flying off USS Sable. Recovered by 1987. There must be half a dozen exhibits in the NMNA that were recovered from the depths of Lake Michigan, in fact over 200 aircraft are reckoned to have crashed in the Great Lakes during the war

This was the last of a total of 95 -3A variant aircraft built and the last of the batch of 65 delivered to the Navy and Marine Corps. She was delivered to the Navy in 1941 and served with VMF-111 at Qantico and then San Diego.